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Baked Mushrooms

A baked dish of mushrooms on toasted bread topped with rich sweet cream and covered with custard cups.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Baked Mushrooms

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Toast a large slice of bread for each person.

  2. Spread rich sweet cream over each slice.

  3. Place a mushroom, head downward, on each slice; use more than one if they are small.

  4. Season and fill each mushroom with as much cream as it will hold.

  5. Cover each with a custard cup, pressing down onto the toast.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 15 minutes.

  2. Do not remove the cups for 5 minutes after baking to preserve the flavor.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Cream + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Bread + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Large slices of bread
Forms a toasted base that holds the mushrooms and absorbs cream as it bakes.
Rich sweet cream
Adds fat and sweetness and fills the mushrooms, setting into a rich custard-like filling.
Mushrooms
Act as edible cups that soften in the oven and release moisture and savory flavor into the cream.

The step that matters

Keep the cups on for 5 minutes after baking. Keeping the cups in place holds the heat and steam around the cream, letting it finish setting and keeping the filling moist and evenly flavored.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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